On 09/07/2018 12:06 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
Hi,
currently i'm following
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm
playing around with it and it seems to be quite nice.
What i want is a daily consistent backup of my image file of the guest.
I have the idea of
Hi,
currently i'm following
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm
playing around with it and it seems to be quite nice.
What i want is a daily consistent backup of my image file of the guest.
I have the idea of the following procedure:
- Shutdown the guest
On 07/09/2018 09:54, Peter Krempa wrote:
No, that is a supported configuration and even the security should not
create a problem here as we assume the backing image is raw in this
case. That is only a problem if you have a qcow2 image as the base
image.
Thanks for confirmation. I'll continue
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 18:23:46 +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote:
> Il 06-09-2018 12:54 Peter Krempa ha scritto:
> > You forgot to specify the format of the backing file into the overlay
> > file (qemu-img option -F). Libvirt treats any unspecified format as raw
> > since it's not secure to do probing
